Ilan Manouach documents his path to creating The Cubicle Island Pirates – Microworkers, Spambots and the venatic lore of clickfarm humor. The post Sites of Collapse appeared first on The Comics Journal.| The Comics Journal
Grab the September 2025 issue when you see it, and inside you'll find a photo recreation of a New Yorker cover from June of 1974, based on an illustration that spotlit Bronxites posing at the Garden.| New York Botanical Garden
Dozens of religious leaders experienced magic mushrooms in a university study. Many are now evangelists for psychedelics.| Michael Pollan
WHAT A MARVELOUS OPPORTUNITY FOR SATIRE: The dust is far from settled about what The New York Times, March 25, 2025, is calling “an extraordinary leak of internal national security deliberations, d…| Simanaitis Says
Life is Ridiculously Awesome Vinson Cunningham on Shana Novak’s photograph of Kmart’s recently redesigned plastic bag, and its callback to the halcyon days of retail: “The hope was to convince [millennial shoppers] (or, I guess, remind them) that consumption, retail-style, could, in the corporation’s words, be ‘fun,’ even ‘awesome.’ 2016 was the hundredth anniversary of Kmart’s incorporation; the hint of self-consciously campy nostalgia in its new ‘look and feel’ seems c...| Shopping Mall
“Trump vs. the ‘Deep State’” has a lot of kvetching about Ryan Zinke at Interior, some vague insinuations that without an effective deep state to oppose him (tacitly admitting that Trump is well on his way to crushing the deep state) the country will be vulnerable to disaster, and a storyline about some Iranian cunt who works at State, was a yuge Obama supporter, cried when Trump was elected, and worked on the Iran deal. She’s been demoted, completely sidelined, and humiliated–mo...| Tanner Hauser
